Nearly 7 out of 10 Mexicans support the work of the National Guard (GN) and keep the Armed forces in public security tasks, as revealed this Friday by a Poligrama survey in the midst of the national debate on the militarization.
68.7% of those surveyed expressed that they do “agree with the creation of the National Guard and with their performance so far”, while 31.3% answered no.
The National Guard is a body created in 2019 by the president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who promised to keep it civilian, but this month enacted a bill to transfer its control to the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena).
Results
In this sense, 56.2% of those surveyed asked that from now on the operation of the National Guard be maintained in the Sedena.
Meanwhile, 23.4% asked to go to the Ministry of the Interior (Segob)which previously had control of the defunct Federal police and 20.4% thought that he should return to Department of Public Security, as established by López Obrador at the beginning.
In addition, the survey revealed that 70.4% of the population considers “that the Armed Forces, the Army and the Navy should continue doing public security work until 2028”, as the Senate is now debating.
National Guard and Armed Forces
Meanwhile, 29.6% believed that they should return to their barracks in March 2024, as established by the transitory constitutional article of the law that created the National Guard.
For the study, 1,000 telephone surveys were conducted to men and women of legal age on September 28, 2022.
The publication of the Poligrama survey comes days after the Government of Lopez Obrador announced that it will carry out a “participatory exercise” on January 22, 2023 to ask the population about their opinion of the National Guard and the Armed Forces.
The Government set up tables to ask people the questions the survey asked: your assessment of the National Guard, whether you want to keep the Army until 2028 on the streets, and if you agree that the GN belongs to the Armed forces.
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